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Informatics in Public Health Subject of University of Pittsburgh
Lindberg Symposium
Other Topics:
Care Delivery Informatics
University of Pittsburgh
May 5, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA -- “Informatics in Public Health,” this year’s
Donald A.B. Lindberg Lecture and Symposium sponsored by the
University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Biomedical Informatics
and the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), will discuss
informatics in surveillance, epidemic models and other aspects
of public health practice. The symposium takes place from 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m., on Thursday, May 8. The morning session, which
features the keynote Donald A.B. Lindberg Lecture, will be in
Parran Hall, G-23 Auditorium, 130 DeSoto St. The afternoon
session will be at the Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science
Tower, Room S-100, 200 Lothrop St., both on the University of
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The Donald A.B. Lindberg
Lecture, “Real Time Biosurveillance: Into Maturity or
Obscurity?” will be presented by Leslie Lenert, M.D., M.S.,
director of the National Center for Public Health Informatics
(NCPHI) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At the NCPHI, Dr. Lenert is responsible for improving health
practice through the advancement of the science of biomedical
information systems. He pioneered the use of computer
interviewing techniques for preference surveys, the development
of surveys with integrated multimedia materials and the
development of web-based delivery mechanisms for surveys. He
also is interested in research in the Wireless Internet
Information System for Medical Response in Disasters (WIISARD)
project, an advanced wireless location-aware electronic records
system designed to facilitate the care of victims at the site of
disasters or terrorist attacks. He is a member of the editorial
boards of Medical Decision Making, the Journal of the American
Medical Informatics Association and Journal of Biomedical
Informatics. He is also a member of the Agency for Health
Research and Policy’s Healthcare Technology and Decision
Sciences study section. In 2002, Dr. Lenert was appointed to the
American College of Medical Informatics, in recognition of his
work in the field of informatics.
Following Dr. Lenert’s lecture, Donald S. Burke, M.D., Dean of
GSPH and UPMC-Jonas Salk Professor of Global Health, will
present a lecture titled, “The Epidemiological Dynamics of
Influenza in Pittsburgh.” Michael Wagner, M.D., Ph.D., associate
professor of biomedical informatics and intelligent systems, and
director of the Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance
(RODS) Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh also will
present a lecture during the morning session entitled,
“Informatics in Biosurveillance: A Ten-Year Retrospective.”
The afternoon session features the following presentations:
* Kirsten Waller, M.D., M.P.H., surveillance sections leader,
Division of Disease Epidemiology, Pennsylvania Department of
Health
* “Environmental Public Health Tracking: Past, Present and
Future,” by Evelyn O. Talbott, Dr.P.H., professor, Department of
Epidemiology, GSPH
* “The Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector,” by William R. Hogan,
M.D., M.S., associate professor of biomedical informatics,
University of Pittsburgh, and director, Medical
Vocabulary/Ontology Services, UPMC
* “Case Detection/NLP,” by Rich Tsui, Ph.D., research assistant
professor of biomedical informatics and intelligent systems, and
associate director, RODS Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh
* “Bayesian Biosurveillance,” by Gregory F. Cooper, M.D., Ph.D.,
associate professor of biomedical informatics, computer science
and intelligent systems and vice chair, Department of Biomedical
Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
* “Multivariate Outbreak Detection and Characterization,” by
Danial B. Neill, Ph.D., assistant professor of information
systems, Heinz School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon
University
Established in 1997, the Donald A.B. Lindberg Lecture addresses
key issues in biomedical informatics and is named for Donald
A.B. Lindberg, M.D., who continues to pioneer the development of
advanced information systems as director of the U.S. National
Library of Medicine.
Founded in 1948 and fully accredited by the Council on Education
for Public Health, GSPH is world-renowned for contributions that
have influenced public health practices and medical care for
millions of people. One of the top-ranked schools of public
health in the United States, GSPH was the first fully accredited
school of public health in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
with alumni who are among the leaders in their fields of public
health.
The Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) was formed in
2006, and brings together a diverse group of faculty who are
committed to improving biomedical research and clinical care
through informatics research and development. Current areas of
focus include biosurveillance, bioinformatics, clinical
informatics, health services research, intelligent systems,
machine learning, natural language processing, oncology
informatics, tissue banking informatics, and translational
informatics.
The symposium is targeted to clinicians from all health
professions, information technology professionals, educators and
administrators. For more information or to register, please
access the symposium Web site at
http://www.dbmi.pitt.edu/lindberg or contact Joseph Cummings at
412-647-7156. |
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